SONG OF THE YEAR
Janet - All Nite (Don't Stop)



This is sick.

WHOOOAHH!

"Attention it's time to dance…"



WORK IT LIKE YOU'RE WORKING A POLE
SHAKE IT TIL YOU'RE SHAKING THE FLOOR
POP IT LIKE YOU'RE POPPIN' A CORK
Don't stop, Don't stop
JERK It LIKE YOU'RE MAKING IT CHOKE
BREAK It LIKE YOU'RE BREAKIN' A CODE
DROP IT TIL YOU'RE TAKING IT LOWER

Drop it, drop it….

This is serious
I'm delirious
So oblivious
I could dance all night



With you

As long as it funky
This rhythm just makes me high
I'm like a junkie

I could dance all night

WORK IT LIKE YOU'RE WORKING A POLE
SHAKE IT TIL YOU'RE SHAKING THE FLOOR
POP IT LIKE YOU'RE POPPIN' A CORK
Don't stop, Don't stop
JERK It LIKE YOU'RE MAKING IT CHOKE
BREAK It LIKE YOU'RE BREAKIN' A CODE
DROP IT TIL YOU'RE TAKING IT LOWER



So intoxicated
I'm so stimulated
Feel so X-rated
I could dance all night

As long as it's funky
This rhythm just makes me high
I'm like a junkie



I could dance all night

WORK IT LIKE YOU'RE WORKING A POLE
SHAKE IT TIL YOU'RE SHAKING THE FLOOR
POP IT LIKE YOU'RE POPPIN' A CORK
Don't stop, Don't stop
JERK It LIKE YOU'RE MAKING IT CHOKE
BREAK It LIKE YOU'RE BREAKIN' A CODE
DROP IT TIL YOU'RE TAKING IT LOWER

Everybody on the floor (Let's go*!)
Let's get hardcore (Get low)
Make my sweat pour (Oh no)
Don't stop (Gimmee some more)
Ooh my body's yours (spank that)
Spank that back door (like that)
Drive me like a Porsche (yea)

I could dance all nite...

Can we take this party higher?

Now just put your hands to the sky and



Clap, clap, clap, clap

I could dance all night

WORK IT LIKE YOU'RE WORKING A POLE
SHAKE IT TIL YOU'RE SHAKING THE FLOOR
POP IT LIKE YOU'RE POPPIN' A CORK
Don't stop, Don't stop
JERK It LIKE YOU'RE MAKING IT CHOKE
BREAK It LIKE YOU'RE BREAKIN' A CODE
DROP IT TIL YOU'RE TAKING IT LOWER

Don't stop, don't stop.



WTG, Janet*!!!

I'm with you on this one, Jan. Janet had the biggest hottest dance song yet unfornately, few got to hear it, even though Janet performed it everywhere. It should have been a huge maxi single. Not only is the single/song of the year but a great example of record companies fucking up!

Most definitely. And the remixes only made it better.

Gwen's What you waiting for is certainly more worthy of the title.

I would say maybe DANCE song of the year.


I would say Song of the year my vote would be "Slow Jamz" by Kanye West.

WHY did Janet put the LIVE version of "Just A Little While" onthe DVD set???!!! She lost my $20.
[Edited 12/31/04 22:44pm]

VinnyM27 said:

Spot on. So true.

I played that song so much this year.

VoicesCarry said:

What are the remixes like. I've so lost track of Janet this year.

It ain't even my favourite on Damita Jo.

Actually "Call my Name" by Prince is probably my favorite song of the year. It was a beautiful and perfect ballad.

---> The ILLEST <---

I would say "mess of the year"!

"Damita Jo" is far behind her previous works like "The Velvet Rope" or "Janet"!

And "Just A Little While" is a poor pastiche of Prince's "When You Were Mine"!!!

Anyway... Peace for Janet fans!

variety1317 said:

Yep, yep. This song was PLAYED by me in 2004.

::storytime*::

When it first hit, I was with my friend in a car driving to a bar in Detroit and we had the "Damita Jo" CD going at full blast. We walked in the place and as soon as I saw the dancefloor I walked up to the DJ and told her, "Can you play something from the new Janet album?" She said she left her "Damita Jo" CD at home. Luckily for her, I had it in my car.

I left the bar, went out into the cold streets and got the album out of our car stereo. I jogged back in with the CD and she happily accepted it. Fifteen minutes later she started spinning "All Nite (Don't Stop)." My friend and I got on the dance floor and started to dance to it. I had this look like, "y'all don't know what's up*!" We were the only two people on the dancefloor and we were dancing like a spirit had possessed us. If you ever watched someone catch the "holy ghost" on TV, that's how we looked. Our arms were flapping in the air, we were clapping our hands and tearing the f**king song up. Everyone was staring at us and were like "Whoa, who are these kids and what is this?" We were a ball of energy. The song hadn't hit radio yet and the album was barely out for two days. People didn't know what the song was but they were like "Hmmm?"

Towards the bridge, I noticed more and more people were coming on the dancefloor. By the time the song was over, the dancefloor was packed and the side mirrors were fogged up from all these bodies dancing. I was like, "D*mmnnnn*!"

I will always remember that*!

please this isn't even Janet's best song of the year.

JANFAN4L said:

Could you post some stills from the uncut video please?

sextonseven said:

I'll get something together for you soon.

"Hot2nite" by New edition was better.

I personally think "sexhibition" was the best dance track on there.

Best track this year was a jam/lewis cut though. "newness" from Ne's latest. U think Damita Jo got ragged on and forgot about, try NE. Where the fuck is the follow up single?

thesexofit said:

Who is Ne?

JANFAN4L said:

Now how did the DJ know to play that? Did you instruct her? Did we already know by the time the album dropped that it would be a single (or maybe it already was in the DJ pools)?

I remember you telling this story before.

CinisterCee said:

Yep. I said, "could you play either Track 4 ('Strawberry Bounce') or Track 10 ('All Nite (Don't Stop)')." She played the latter Then a few songs later she played "Moist." I guess she had her own agenda with her second selection, but it's all good.

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[Edited 1/1/05 23:23pm]

JANFAN4L said:

Thanks for clearing that up. So YOU recommended "All Nite"

wB`

said:

Yes! I'm psychic.

I want to flesh out my appreciation for this dancer. Her name's Aminah and the girl totally had me floored when she performed alongside Janet during "All Nite (Don't Stop)" on Saturday Night Live. Aminah gave SO MUCH LIFE and energy to the choreography. It was like someone charged her with a volt of electricity and let her loose! I couldn't keep my eyes off of her throughout the entire performance. She OWNED AN(DS) that night, no other dancer -- even Gil -- could touch her.

I FEEL YOU, AMINAH!

I hope to see her on the upcoming Janet tour. She's one of my all-time favorite Kids. Plus, she wrecked it at the Super Bowl half time show. That sassy a** strut she gave during Janet's stair walkdown had me screaming like a fool! GET 'EM! She is LIFE, personified.

While I was completely turned-off by Damita Jo as a whole, this song is SO HOT.

My love for it has only grown over the year as it gets played out at the queer clubs at home. GOOD STUFF!

MUSIC VIDEO
Dancing in the Dark
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, New York Times
Published: June 27, 2004

WHY did we worry so much during last summer's blackout? Had we known at the time how harmless it would be, we could have just fired up a sound system with a car battery and danced the night away.

This civics lesson is at the heart of Janet Jackson's clever, sexually restless "All Nite (Don't Stop)" video, in which the director Francis Lawrence takes music off the grid and gives Ms. Jackson a chance to do over that glad and candle-lit August night. But given the censure she received for baring her breast at the Super Bowl, is turning off the lights and letting her do what she wants a good idea? It's been nearly five months since that scandalous evening and Ms. Jackson now appears to be thumbing her miniature nose at the Federal Communications Commission one more time with this orgiastic short. If not quite brave, that's at least plucky.

The video begins with Ms. Jackson's showfolk sprawled on bordello furniture in a derelict building, stranded without lights or air-conditioning. A massive staircase and wraparound balcony, suspiciously ideal for big dance numbers, define a cavernous ballroom where the air is cloudy with sawdust or dance chalk. "Damita Jo," the title of her album, is spelled out in unlighted neon along one wall.

The prostration of the dancers is interrupted when someone sprints in with a cumbersome battery, and winds stripped copper wire from a stereo system around a cathode. Up come the clubby, big-room beats of "All Nite (Don't Stop)," and like something out of "Fame" the gang skips into action, many of them carrying flashlights that serve as a haphazard strobe. Ms. Jackson appears covered but for her mouth, her chin, and a wide band of abdominal flesh. Even her face is hidden through the video, first by a brimmed hat, and then by long bangs. On close examination, the singer's adventures in exhibitionism often seem to involve relatively small patches of skin, coupled with raunchy gyrations.

Though the song is strictly machine-made, with Ms. Jackson's sweetheart voice protected by layers of effects, the dancing looks lo-fi, with no costumes or floodlights, and it's shot by a distractible camera. The group routine includes some lascivious Bob Fosse choreography lifted from the 1979 movie "All That Jazz." And though this is a bossy song, spoken by a demanding choreographer or a bullying boyfriend — "work it like you're workin' a pole" — the dancers here seem to do their alpha girl's bidding as a lark. Why not just get up and dance? The clubs are dark on this night, after all; they've got nothing better to do.

Though Ms. Jackson remains true to her sexy moves, the video does showcase oscillations in her persona. Predictably, the new album is meant to mark a departure from the old Janet Jackson, who was herself a departure from even older Janet Jacksons. (On "Control," she broke free of family; on "Rhythm Nation 1814," she broke free of injustice.) Ms. Jackson has accused herself, in jest, of being schizophrenic, and maybe what she was describing were aesthetic mood swings, not between decorous and raunchy, but between domineering and deferential. She is said to have yielded more than usual to producers on this album, an experience she claims to have found both difficult and rewarding. The lyrics to "All Nite (Don't Stop)" switch between 1-900 confessionalism — "So intoxicated/ I'm so stimulated/ Feel so X-rated/ I could dance all night" — and drill-sergeant attitude.

Though the spirit of the dance is gregarious, Ms. Jackson often isolates herself. She races between the suffocating mob and solitude; there's no place for a duet here. Instead, backed to a wall, she yelps and whimpers, simulating masturbation, as the white lights work her over at irregular intervals. Her dancers appear to be practicing similar solo routines, some of which have a component of yoga.

The battery man, all the while, is finding a way to light up the neon. When at last he does, the song is winding down. The bright letters — "Damita Jo" is in a girly cursive, as on the album cover — turn the makeshift studio into a real stage set, and remind everyone who's in charge. That's initially exciting, but it also diminishes the impromptu glee of the performance. Back to work. The song ends almost hastily, and the dancers file out, with Ms. Jackson at the back of the line.

JANFAN4L said:

I disagree. That girl Melanie with the crazy curly blonde hair was the business! Aminah was hot too but I don't know.....it was all about Melanie for me.

Scorpion said:

Diff'rent strokes, but, which one is Melanie -- the Britney-spears looking girl with the straight, shoulder-length hair -- kind of young-looking or that one in the photo above with the curly blonde-colored hair?

And ARE YOU FROM L.A.? Because you just used some L.A. slang talking about "the business"! LMAO!!

JANFAN4L said:

Yes, I'm from L.A. Melanie is in the photo too...